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I-74 Bridge workers: Contractor Lunda purposely delaying bridge (11/7/19)

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Federal legislators urge cooperation on Interstate 74 bridge project (11/23/19)

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Iowa DOT Director: Despite dispute with contractor, I-74 bridge is buildable (11/21/19)

[tallyhoe]

Get a new Contractor who can build it!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Bettendorf, we have a problem.

PING.

[Magnum44]

This seems to be about money, not engineering. Did they underbid to get the contract?

[TheBattman]

They took the contract to build it (which includes a whole lot of study), they began construction and fell behind schedule, missing several deadlines - so they can’t come up with an excuse, so they now say the bridge is “unbuildable”? Seriously?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Dynamite the bridges then implement an enviro-friendly ferry service

[Ouchthatonehurt]

[SpaceBar]

Build them by hand out of quarried stone with convict labor.

[GingisK]

“...buildable...”? Why do people make words up so often these days? It is a failure of education?

[MinuteGal]

Call in the guy who built the bridge over the River Kwai !!!

Leni

[IndispensableDestiny]

If the bridge is unbuildable, the contractor should not have bid on the job.

[PAR35]

Lunda Construction has a high level of experience in constructing small box culverts. So when they say they can’t build a large bridge, they probably know what they are talking about.

I do wonder if there are some ‘affirmative action’ elements to the issue.

[trebb]

So - they could do things in the 30s and 60s that they can’t do now - progress as rendered by “progressives”....